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Fasan is the Swedish word for pheasant.  The Fasan bean originally came from Sesam, which is the Swedish equivalent of the British Heritage Seed Library.  As they have this bean in their collection, suggests that it is a Swedish heritage bean.  Certainly a bean that will thrive in shorter seasons and under cooler conditions.  Dual use as a young green bean, but in the main for shelling. 

My last dwarf bean is Fasan. This is another variety which Galina rescued from the Bohnenatlas collection. Very little is known about its origin except that it was donated from Sweden originally. It's a quite productive bean. I'm a little vague about its eating potential but I would regard it as all-purpose - snap when young, good for shelling and definitely good for attractive dried beans including quite a few with reverse colouring

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And yes please to the watermelon from me too.

Another dwarf bean from me,Harvester Mangiatutti

I've included this because it's a good productive snap bean. I was given it in a Canadian seed swap and although it has a partly Italian name meaning 'eat all' , it seems to circulate in a small number of Canadian seed companies rather than more widely. There is a rather older US commercial variety called simply Harvester, developed for heavy yield, shipping, processing etc from the late 1950s so it's possible that this was remarketed with an unjustified Italian flavour by the Canadian seed company that seems to have relaunched it more recently.

Oh and yes please to the watermelon Garrett.

So much to look forward to from Jang and Garrett.  Love the double hilum ring on  Slavonski Zeleni Grah. 

I've collected seed from all my provisional list:

Sweet pepper
Lipstick

Tomato
De Barao Black
India Stripe
Yellow Clementine
Whippersnapper  - dwarf
Velvet Night - dwarf

Dwarf French bean
Deuil Fin Précoce

I can't remember if I've ever included Sugar Baby watermelon. It's a mini watermelon I've grown successfully for years and it might be of interest considering how warm our summers are becoming.

There will be a couple of other edibles as long as can collect enough seed.

CFB Borlotto Bonariiva

I was given this bean by an Italian donor and didn't grow it for a few years but I've grown it this year and because it was so productive and easy to grow I decided to include it as a good productive climbing borlotto bean There is hardly any information about it but it seems to be a traditional family-maintained bean, from the Belluno area, Veneto, Italy. It dries down quite early.

Roxinho and Rosinha

I was given both of these a few years ago in a swap with a Brazilian grower living in Austria. His wife visited their home country and brought back these two varieties which I think are readily available in Brazil. They did surprisingly well considering the difference in climate and day length. The beans are quite small but both are valued in Brazil for their cooking qualities as dried beans. Rosinha put out some runners and I would grow it as a semi with some support. Roxinho is a fairly vigorous dwarf.  Roxinho means 'little purple'.

Another bean for the circle - DFB Slavonski Zeleni Grah

This is traditional local dwarf bean from Croatia grown in family gardens and small farms in Slavonia and continental Croatia for generations. The name means Slavonian Green bean   It's a dual purpose bean, good for green snap beans and also dried beans for soups etc - and it's productive too. I had my seeds from my Canadian seed swap but she had hers from Russ Crow who in turn had them from a donor in Drevhostic, Czech Republic in 2019